Messages in this thread | | | From | "Stuart MacDonald" <> | Subject | RE: [OT] RE: bogofilter ate 3/5 | Date | Fri, 8 Sep 2006 10:25:33 -0400 |
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From: Chase Venters [mailto:chase.venters@clientec.com] > Indeed. Let me make one final point then. If you think this issue is > important, you might start by asking the administrators of
I think it's important enough that LKML shouldn't be introducing new autorespond behaviour if it can be avoided.
Quite often I play Devil's Advocate in a debate. I brought up the point that autoresponders are often considered spam, you seemed to take a hardline position that autoresponds are necessary and cannot ever be removed, so I took the opposing hardline position. Makes the debate interesting.
Personally I consider all Virus, bounce and deferral messages, that are generated by email I did not send aka had my address forged, to be spam. There are valid alternate methods that avoid the requirement of sending those types of messages.
I ignore mailing list join-up confirmation messages. Those are necessary as there's no other way to confirm an address wants to join.
I ignore the first vacation message, but if I get multiples within a week, then I report that.
The vast majority of my spam besides actual spam are bounces. Virus autoresponders used to be common but have stopped. I notice a correlation between the end of virus responses and SpamCop accepting them as spam. Mailing lists and vacation notices are very rare in practice.
..Stu
PS. Still waiting for your snail mail address. :-)
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